Re: up-list gives error inside strings

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I can't tell if the failure to move out of the parentheses is by design,
>> but the error message is misleading.
>
> One of the design constraints we've imposed on ourselves is that operations
> like up-list and friends should ideally work "locally" without having to
> parse the buffer from the very beginning
>
> Now you're going to say "but it's highlighted as a string, so Emacs knows
> it's a string".  Well, yes, kind of.  But now users have found advantages to
> the misfeature, and font-lock highlighting is not guaranteed to be
> available and even less guaranteed to be correct, and ....
>
> So let's call it a known misfeature.  It should be improved in the future.

Well, I didn't even expect it to be fixable, as I suspected that it was
a design limitation.  However I'd like this to be documented in either
the doc string or the error message.  That would make it a _known_
misfeature, in my opinion. :)

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher